August 20th 08, 08:19 AM
posted to uk.transport.london
|
|
external usenet poster
|
|
First recorded activity at LondonBanter: Jun 2005
Posts: 905
|
|
OT - Blue plaques
On Mon, 18 Aug 2008 21:00:05 +0100, Tom Anderson
wrote:
On Mon, 18 Aug 2008, Mark Brader wrote:
Tom Anderson writes:
I think that's quite a nice idea. You might want to subdivide further
than by country, though - if, say, 90% of plaques are about British
people ... then the national flag isn't providing a lot of information
about those ones.
Ah, but the trick is to use the *correct* national flag. For Samuel
Pepys, the St. George's Cross; for Samuel Johnson, the Union Jack
without the red diagonal cross; for Samuel Palmer, the present version.
Ingenious!
And for any Samuels born from about 2020 on, we can just use the EU flag,
right John? 
Arguably 1987.
|